Chris Minnick, Eva Holland

Writing Computer Code

Learn the Language of Computers!

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

* Build an Animated Robot App * Create Cool Games * Make a Web Page * Learn Real Coding Skills Learn coding and build cool stuff! JavaScript is what makes websites and apps work. This book shows you how to write JavaScript code by creating a MadLibs-style game, an adventure game, a calculator app, a lemonade stand app, a web page, and more. Learn JavaScript and wow your friends! * Start right away - get started using the JavaScript Console in the very first chapter * Make things you can use - build apps you can use and games to play with your friends * Go farther - get creative with the coding language that adds life to the web and powers popular apps

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Altersempfehlung: 8 bis 11 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 136mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 214g
• ISBN-13: 9781119177302
• ISBN-10: 1119177308
• Artikelnr.: 45943326

Autorenporträt

Chris Minnick and Eva Holland are experienced web developers, tech trainers, and coauthors of JavaScript For Kids For Dummies. Together they founded WatzThis?, a company focused on training and course development.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1
About This Book 1
About You 2
About The Icons 3
The First Step 4
Project 1: Becoming a Programmer 5
What Is Programming? 5
How can you talk to computers? 10
What languages will you learn? 14
Gathering Your Tools 18
Getting your browser ready 18
Working with JSFiddle 19
Sharing Your Fiddle 27
Summary 28
Project 2: Gathering the Parts to Build Your Robot 2 9
Saying What You Mean 30
Making a statement 31
Following the rules 33
Giving and Receiving Data 34
Knowing Your Operands and?@Operators 39
Introducing the Super-Calculator 40
Forking the Super-Calculator 41
Using the Super-Calculator 42
Super-calculating with text 44
Summary 47
Project 3: Building Your Robot's Body 48
Writing HTML 48
Seeing what text looks like without HTML 49
Using HTML: It's all about the tags 50
Nesting HTML tags 52
Writing your first HTML document 54
Knowing your HTML elements 56
Introducing Douglas the Robot 58
Changing HTML Using JavaScript 4
Summary 66
Project 4: Giving Your Robot Style 67
Giving Douglas Style 68
Getting the Basics of CSS 69
CSS selectors 70
CSS declarations 74
CSS properties 76
Colorizing Douglas 78
Using CSS colors 78
Changing colors 81
Customizing Your Own Robot 84
Summary 85
Project 5: Animating Your Robot 87
Changing CSS with JavaScript 87
Modifying Douglas with JavaScript 89
Experimenting with Douglas 92
Making Douglas Dance 94
Creating Animations with JavaScript 97
Animating another element 100
Using a second animation function 100
Summary 104
Project 6: Creating a JavaScript Word Game 105
Creating a Variable Story 105
Creating the Word Replacement Game 106
Writing the HTML 108
Styling the Word Game 111
Writing the JavaScript Code 114
Finishing the Program 117